Re: Thinking toward mingw64 and mingw-get

On 27/02/13 20:54, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Keith Marshall wrote:
>> Then we stop using the alias feature, in our package specifications, and
>> force users to be more verbosely specific when selecting packages.  I
>> had reservations when I added aliases, (as an experiment), because they
>> could be easily abused; Chuck persuaded me to keep them.
>
> Perhaps we should.  Maybe with the next release of mingw-get.

This is nothing to do with the mingw-get release cycle; it is entirely a 
property of mingw-dist.  Individual package maintainers will need to 
remove *inappropriate* aliases from the XML specifications for their 
packages; (note that some aliases will remain appropriate [1]).

[1] There are currently three aliases defined for mingw32-gcc:

     gcc == mingw32-gcc
     gcc-core == mingw32-gcc
     mingw32-gcc-core == mingw32-gcc

Of these, the first two yield the impression of default behaviour, which 
you find objectionable; the third remains appropriate.

IIRC, Erwin's dos2unix package provides another, possibly even better 
example, of an alias which may even be imperative.

-- 
Regards,
Keith.

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